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Loops

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Capture. Share. Loop.

This community is to discuss the Loops project.

Loops is a short video sharing platform created by the developer of Pixelfed.

Feel free to post feedback, ideas or any thoughts you have about Loops!

For sharing Loops videos, you should check out : !loops@midwest.social

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How does loops do it? (self.loops)
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While the loops project has not been made open source yet, does anyone have an idea how they do it? Videos are data heavy and require lots or bandwidth and storage. Is the data centralized ? Where is it stored? Will we be able to self host an instance at some point?

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[–] m_f@midwest.social 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's going to be open sourced soon. It's written in PHP, and it's partially on the Fediverse (@dansup@loops.video is available via ActivityPub, but not every account). It saves on compute somewhat by having your phone do the transcoding before uploading.

All of this is just occasionally browsing @dansup@mastodon.social's posts to see what's up.

A couple of relevant posts:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113718931392995742

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113718967864546972

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113718896278072917